Pe mitti g I ovato s is a p og am of CEQ’s Pe mitti g I ovatio Ce te , co ducted i collabo atio with NASA’s Ce te of Excelle ce fo Collabo ative I ovatio u de a 2025 White House di ective to update pe mitti g tech ology fo the 21st ce tu y. Followi g a atio al Call fo Solutio s ope f om Ap il 28 th ough Ju e 2, 2026, a pa el of p ofessio als evaluated submissio s agai st CEQ’s published c ite ia a d the tech ology gaps ide tified i the fede al Pe mitti g Tech ology Actio Pla , a d CEQ made fi al selectio s. Ecobot is o e of the solutio s selected, i a field that i cludes Mic osoft, Salesfo ce, Se viceNow, Adobe, Acce tu e Fede al Se vices, Deloitte, AECOM, Jacobs, a d ICF.
The Expo gives fede al age cy staff the oppo tu ity to evaluate qualified solutio s side by side a d e gage di ectly with the teams behi d them. Selected solutio s will also be featu ed i the Pe mitti g I ovato s Solutio s Catalog, to be sha ed with fede al age cies i late 2026 as a esou ce fo assessi g the viability a d p ocu eme t pote tial of pe mitti g tech ologies.
Ecobot digitizes aquatic esou ce field assessme ts spa i g the f amewo ks of mo e tha te fede al age cies, eplaci g pape data sheets with st uctu ed, submissio – eady data. E vi o me tal co sulti g fi ms a d public age cies use Ecobot Collecto , the compa y’s mobile field applicatio , a d Ecobot Ma age , its web-based data ma ageme t platfo m, fo wetla d deli eatio s, st eam a d O di a y High Wate Ma k (OHWM) assessme ts, a d pe mitti g wo kflows u de p og ams such as Sectio 404 of the Clea Wate Act. Ma y solutio s selected fo the Expo accele ate the dow st eam stages of pe mitti g (docume t a alysis, wo kflow ma ageme t, a d eview automatio ). Ecobot add esses the poi t of o igi : the field data o which eve y aquatic esou ce pe mit decisio ests.
Si ce 2018, mo e tha 1,000 e vi o me tal co sulti g fi ms a d public age cies have used Ecobot to ge e ate mo e tha 325,000 e vi o me tal egulato y epo ts ac oss mo e tha 39,000 p ojects, field wo k u de pi i g multi-state pipeli es, statewide powe g id updates, majo t a spo tatio imp oveme ts, a d othe c itical i f ast uctu e ac oss the U ited States.
“Eve y fede al pe mit decisio o a wetla d o st eam ests o data somebody collected sta di g i the mud,” said Lee La ce, co-fou de a d CEO of Ecobot. “Fo eight yea s we’ve helped ou custome s make that data st uctu ed, co siste t, a d submissio – eady f om the mome t it’s captu ed. Mode izi g pe mitti g mea s mode izi g its fou datio , a d we’ e ho o ed that CEQ selected Ecobot to show fede al age cies what a digital-fi st field data laye makes possible.”
“By b i gi g togethe i ovato s a d gove me t, the Pe mitti g I ovato s Expo will help ide tify high-pote tial solutio s that ca accele ate the delive y of c itical i f ast uctu e p ojects to the Ame ica people,” said CEQ Chai ma Kathe i e Sca lett whe the Expo was a ou ced i Ju e.
Membe s of the e vi o me tal eview a d pe mitti g commu ity i te ested i atte di g the Expo may submit a i te est fo m at
Ecobot, I c. is the field data platfo m fo e vi o me tal pe mitti g. Headqua te ed i Asheville, N.C., Ecobot digitizes aquatic esou ce field assessme ts spa i g the f amewo ks of mo e tha te fede al age cies, eplaci g pape data sheets with st uctu ed, geo efe e ced, submissio – eady data th ough Ecobot Collecto fo mobile field captu e a d Ecobot Ma age fo web-based data ma ageme t. Because eve y obse vatio is sta da dized at the poi t of collectio , Ecobot data is built to i teg ate with the data systems, a alytics, a d AI tools mode izi g e vi o me tal eview. Si ce 2018, mo e tha 1,000 e vi o me tal co sulti g fi ms a d public age cies have elied o Ecobot to p oduce mo e tha 325,000 egulato y epo ts ac oss mo e tha 39,000 p ojects suppo ti g pipeli es, powe g id upg ades, t a spo tatio imp oveme ts, a d othe c itical i f ast uctu e atio wide. Lea mo e at ecobot.com, o explo e Ecobot fo gove me t at ecobot.com/gov.
